Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Jerzy Kosinski

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• China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Strong
  • Powerful
  • Be Strong

• It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Reality
  • Sad

• The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

  

  Edmund White
  • Like
  • Always
  • Driver

• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Down

• While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • America
  • Man
  • Gay

• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Nature
  • You
  • Butterfly

• More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Long
  • More
  • Away

• I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Believe
  • Enough
  • Understand

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• My whole thing is being a coach, a GM, and a president: you all got to be attached at the hip. There's got to be no separation between you. The players got to know it's one voice: we're all in this together; we're going to do this right.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Together
  • Know
  • Voice

• At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Feeling

• I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.

  

  Ed Royce
  • World
  • Father
  • Army

• 'Black with hate,' said Becca. 'You are gathering your people with hate.''Can you imagine conducting a war with love?' asked Ta-Kumsaw.'That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,' she said gently.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Love
  • War

• Spirituality amounts to love with me. I consider it the same as love. And my band members are full of love.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Band

• Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Literature

• I only got beef with those that violate me; I shall annihilate thee.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.

• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

  

  Alice Walker
  • God
  • Color
  • Purple

• A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Relationship
  • Choice
  • Assignment

• We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bird
  • Condition
  • Passions

• 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Life
  • Movie
  • King

• I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

  

  James Dean
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Brain

• In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski